Lockerbie Bomber Freed

[Sput]

I cannot join the protests against the release of the Libyan Abdelbaset Al Megrahi.

I have never seen any convincing evidence that he had anything to do with the Lockerbie bombing and I don’t believe there is any.

It has been common currency among experts for years that the outrage was an Iranian-Syrian operation, nothing to do with Libya.

I am mystified that Megrahi has dropped his appeal against this fishy conviction.

I expect it has something to do with the weird neo-conservative truce between the US and Libya, under which that country pretended to abandon weapons of mass destruction which it never possessed, and the
neo-cons pretended that this was a victory for George W. Bush’s half-witted foreign policy.

What’s more, many of those aerating themselves over this, especially Mrs Hillary Clinton, seem perfectly happy with the much more serious and lawless release of dozens of IRA and ‘Loyalist’ killers and terrorists, all of them genuine culprits, which was the result of American pressure on this country to give in to murder and intimidation.

If the IRA had ever dared let off a bomb in the US, half the population of Londonderry and Belfast would be behind the wire in Guantanamo Bay.

From Peter Hitchens' blog. He may be a bit repulsive as a human, but occasionally he does write some superb sense.

I just noticed you posted this, but am inclined to disagree with your assessment. For you see, Hitchens is very much in the OMG BOMB THE SHIT OUT IRAN NOW NOW NOW camp, so everything he says has to be considered in light of this. Obviously in this case it's not that he doesn't blame Libya that's interesting, but that he shifts blame onto Iran.